Tightening up your Vott's

[GM]

Well, when I visited it the late '60s we passed a section I didn't pay much attention to beyond a worker rapidly constructing 825 horn flares amid huge stacks of them on a jig off in the distance, but I wasn't impressed with any of Altec's cab construction, so wasn't interested in seeing that area. I know the late, great Barzilay did a lot [all?] of their consumer cabs by that time, which were pretty much 'top drawer' for the price and considering the condition of various ones sold in estate sales, they've withstood the test of time pretty well.

No clue about OK, but there's some ex employees here, so hopefully they will chime in.

GM

[bowtie427ss]

Weren't many of the furniture grade cabinets built by a company(Hill Craft) formed by the late Dr J K Hilliard's son?

[GM]

Yeah, at the time I wrote the above I had a name I couldn't quite grasp and with my 'library' locked away in a damaged HD, best I could do was put it out there and let folks correct me. Hill Craft did a lot of the 'bread and butter' cabs and at this point assuming it was Barzilay that just did the higher end cabs, customs that we see periodically on ebay. Then again, maybe Altec spread the 'wealth' around to keep it from looking like despotism as I know of at least one pair of curved plastic grilled Valencias made by Barzilay. Still were crap for sonics [for my 'tastes], but made beautiful looking living room additions in the large, open format, Scandinavian decor home they went to.

GM